Javelin Intervales

"Theme"

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Somewhere amid their junk-store cassette rummaging and toy beatbox tinkering, Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford hit upon one of those simple, elemental, elegantly circular melodies — like "Hey Jude," or "Da Funk," or "Bolero" — which feels like it's been cycling eternally in the cosmos, just waiting for your ears. Thankfully on April's No Ms (Luaka Bop), they know enough not to mess around with it too much, allowing the melody, as played on xylophone and fuzz guitar (with a touch of flute counterpoint), to speak for itself, dropping it out only occasionally to let the beat (cheerfully swirling summery funk on the new album; a blunter hip-hop boom-bap on the Jamz n Jemz original) ride. And each time that giddy, triumphant tune hits again, it makes anyone within earshot feel just as unstoppable.